From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Phantom ignition control lever seizing due to lack of lubrication and proposed solutions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 65\1\ scan0203 | |
| Date | 31th May 1927 | |
| 78685 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AJL/LG31.5.27. Y8685 Y8100 PHANTOM IGNITION CONTROLS. We have recently had two cases of the magneto control countershaft lever seizing up on its pin owing to lack of lubrication. The effect of this is to prevent any alteration in position of the magneto sleeve either by hand control or by the relay governor, and also to re-act on the relay governor through the controls and upset the correct working of the system. No means of lubrication is provided for at this point; we think it is essential that this should be corrected either by a small Rotherham lubricator or an oil hole drilled through the lever. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AJL. [Diagram] Title: MAGNETO CONTROL Label: OIL HOLE OR SMALL LUBRICATOR Handwritten notes: .125 oil hole. Csk to .175 diam mouth. | ||